Re: SCP win2K3 to RH9 troubles

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-11-03 Kelly Martin wrote:
> Bénoni MARTIN wrote:
[...]
> > I tried then with sftp and psftp from windows, but cannot manage the
> > trouble of avoiding a prompt asking me the password ...
>
> Don't put the password in your scripts, obviously. Try something like
> Pageant, Putty's version of ssh-agent:
>
> "Using Pagent for authentication" -
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.56/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#C9

I agree, public key authentication is The Way(tm). However, I would not
recommend using pageant here but rather use "pscp -i <key> ...". Of
course in this case the key must not be protected with a passphrase, so
one will have to make sure that noone but the user himself has access to
it.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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